T13 - Mobile and Wireless Broadband Networks Management
| • | Mani Subramanian, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA |
| With the proliferation of wireless LAN (Local Area Network), 3-G technologies, and residential broadband services in metropolitan and rural areas, the centralized network management of last mile and home networks has assumed great significance. The last-mile and last-meters broadband access networks are deployed using hybrid technologies of cable, digital subscriber line (DSL), terrestrial and satellite wireless, 3-G, and wireless LANs. One of the serious and expensive issues in offering broadband service concerns the installation, operation, and maintenance of the access networks. The end-to-end service could traverse a series of wireless network segments comprising wireless home network, wireless broadband access network, and wireless wide area network. Mobile networks, in general, are made up of both wired and wireless network segments, and have different network management issues in contrast to fixed wireless networks. Management of performance, quality of service (QoS), and security are of great concern in providing broadband service. The tutorial presents the management of various configurations of mobile and wireless networks. The tools and standards based on OSI (Open System Interface) and Internet SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) standards are presented that address fault, configuration, accounting, performance, and security. |
Dr. Mani Subramanian has over thirty-five years of telecommunications experience in academic, research, and corporate institutions. Mani is the founder of two companies involved in broadband access technologies. Mani is currently an adjunct professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, consulting on telecommunications and authoring chapters for books on broadband systems and Internet computing. He is a member of the steering committee of the Wireless Internet Institute, a global organization promoting accelerated deployment of wireless technology.
Maniís experience includes research and development in voice and data communications in software and hardware systems. He has done research and development at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Bell Communications Research, held positions as Vice President of Engineering and Operations in various diversified corporations including Racal Datacom. He was elected to the Board of the OSI Network Management Forum in 1990 and, as its Technical Director, was responsible for the development of the first version of OSI Network Management Protocol Specifications.
Mani held academic faculty positions at Purdue University and Georgia Institute of Technology. As Research Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, he developed an academic network management program introducing several new courses and research on broadband access network management. His comprehensive textbook on network management, ìNetwork Management: Principles and Practice,î published by Addison-Wesley is used in many countries and special editions have been printed in India and Republic of China, including a Chinese translation. He is currently involved in the research on last-mile access systems at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has presented tutorials at Supercom 2002 and 2003 on enterprise network management and on last-mile technologies.
Mani holds several patents, and has authored numerous articles in the fields of communications, lasers, networking, network management, and software systems as well as a textbook on network management. He received Bellcoreís Best award for leading a major software operations system development and implementation that forms the backbone of operations in all Bell operating companies in the United States and in telephone companies in several foreign countries.
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